Hoe.



l UTED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

JOHN T. OAKLEY, OE nUEUaUE TOWNSHIP, DUEUQUE COUNTY, IOWA.

' HOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Application led September 16, 1916. Serial No. 120,469.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. OAKLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dubuque Township, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoes, of which the following is a specification.

It has been found by numerous experiments extending over a long time, the cultivation of plants, vespecially in gardens, that in order to quickly and) most successfully cut and eradicate the weeds, there must be provided a hoe having not only a sharp cutting edge, but that'edge provided with cutting edges disposed in special angles whereby the weeds yare attacked by sharp edges in numerous directions and thus rapidly disposed of.

It consists essentially in providing the lower horizontal cutting edge of a hoe with certain portions in horizontal and parallel planes, and others in angles of various degrees.

The following specification with ythe draw-y ings accompanying the same, will describe and illustrate the peculiar shape and form of the blade of the hoe and its mode of operation.

Figure l` is a plan view of the face side of the hoe showing the cutting edge and the blades and angles.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the rear'of the blade and shows the manner of sharpening.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each of the igures.

Referring to the drawings A is the body of the hoe, which consists of an ordinary blade having the front or face edge of the blade provided with the cutting edges B, E, I, N and R all in substantially the same plane kand the cutting edges C, D, F, H, K, M, O and P disposed at different angles t0 the plane of the cutting edges B, E, I, N and R and preferably at different angles to eachother, with the cutting edges Gr and L in parallel planes to the cutting edges B, E, I, N and R in the lower front or face edge of the blade.

All of these edges, both in horizontal y planes and angular are brought to a cutting edgeby sharpening from the rear side along Y the line S I t will be seen that by this mode of construction of the blade and sharpening of the same that a much larger cutting edge will Patented Oct. 3o, 191 'i'- be presented than if the hoe had only a cut-v l ting edge along its lower face and that thek weeds will be attacked at dierent angles,L

and'hence far more liable to be cut olf and eradicated. yIf the weeds are struck at the right angle edge M will also be readily disf posed of. Where the hoe is operatedyat an angle, the weeds will be attacked by sharpk cutting edges at numerous angles, andthe more readily severed.

Having now described my invention what I claim is:

l. AV garden implement comprising a hoe formed with a fiat blade having a straight primary cutting edge, and a plurality of notches in said edge Vwith sides at varying angles 'to the cutting edge and to each other aid sharpened to form secondary cutting e ges.

2. A gardenimplement comprising a hoe formed with a flat blade having a straight primary cutting edge, and a plurality of angular notches in said edge, the sides of each notch inclining di'erently with respect to the cutting edge and sharpened to form secondary cutting edges.

3. A garden implement comprising a hoe formed with a flat blade having a straight primary cutting edge, and a plurality of angular notches in said edge, the sides of each notch inclining differently with respect to the cutting edge and t0 each other and sharpened toform secondary cutting edges, f certain of vsaid notches having their side edges connected by straight cutting edges .i

parallel with the primary cutting edge. n. In testimony whereof I affix my signature 1n the presence of two witnesses. n

M. M. CADY, M. DYER.

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` Washington, D. C. 

